⚡ Website Security Tools in South Africa

Website security tools protect websites and web applications from threats such as unauthorized access, brute-force attacks, malware infections, spam, and data breaches by monitoring activity and blocking malicious requests.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our statistics, website security tools are detected on 18.3% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top security tools in South Africa in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Really Simple Security, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 69.3% share.
It is followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 19.9% and Wordfence with 10%.

Really Simple Security 69.3%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 19.9%
Wordfence 10%
Jetpack 10%
SiteLock 0.06%
BitNinja 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in South Africa than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. Wordfence ^(-1)
6. BitNinja ^(-4)

✨ Best Security Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 6 security tools used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Really Simple Security Groningen, Netherlands A security plugin for WordPress that can generate an SSL certificate, enforce https redirection, scan for possible vulnerabilities, enable 2FA, and implement WordPress hardening. Free$49+/year	69.3%
2	Cloudflare Email Obfuscation San Francisco, California, United States Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation hides email addresses on web pages from bots by encrypting them. Free$25+/month	19.9%
3	Wordfence Seattle, Washington, United States A WordPress security plugin that provides a web application firewall and malware scanner to protect websites from hacking attempts, malicious traffic, and vulnerable code. Free$149+/year	10%
4	Jetpack San Francisco, California, United States A collection of security, performance, and growth tools that make WordPress sites safer, faster, and increase traffic. Free$19.95+/month	10%
5	SiteLock Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A provider of website security protection and monitoring services. $149+/year	0.06%
6	BitNinja Debrecen, Hungary A server security suite with a centralized dashboard containing an AI-powered Linux malware scanner, IP reputation, WAF, and spam detection. Free$5+/month	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Security in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 18,243 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 12 security tools across the web.
Of these, 6 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.